Word: talled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Almost alone of all the first-rate artists who have painted, drawn and graven the War is Kerr Eby, in that he actually served in the line. Tall, grey-haired and 46, he was born in Tokyo, son of a Methodist missionary. Four dollars a week as a lithographer helped put him through art school in Manhattan. He went to France with the A.E.F. camouflage service, was attached to innumerable artillery regiments, never rose above sergeant's rank...
...world's first skyscraper to be treated artistically for what it really was: a cellular arrangement of business offices. Working in an age of romantic eclecticism when Chicago boasted "an Italo-Byzantine-French-Venetian structure with Norman windows," when no other architect knew what to do with a tall façade except to break down its height with a series of small horizontal units, Louis Sullivan's Wainwright Building, in his own words, was and is "every inch a proud and soaring thing, rising in sheer exultation . . . from bottom to top ... a unit without a single dissenting...
...Princeton than upon its scholarship. Its academic aim has been stated by Arthur Stanwood Pier, its official historian, as "teaching boys to think like other people."* Over this rugged, if not particularly intellectual, school presides as rector and headmaster the Rev. Dr. Samuel Smith Drury. Dr. Drury is a tall, stern man with a powerful, sonorous voice. No mixer, he has little contact with the school's 440 boys until they reach the Sixth Form, when he has them in to Sunday tea. Boys call him "The Drip." Once a year the publicity-wise Rector submits a report addressed...
...worked in a brickyard at 10, has since worked in a rock quarry, on a bridge construction crew, in a grocery store, as a janitor, plasterer, chicken farmer, newspaper reporter. Attending college briefly, he quit after he had been suspended three times for his writings in the college paper. Tall, bushy-haired, expressing himself in the twanging speech of the hill country, he now lives in Murfreesboro, where he began his literary career by conducting a newspaper column for which he received no salary...
...west of Nashville, that has 14 street lights, four churches, a chapter of the Ku Klux Klan, a large number of local drug addicts, bootleggers, bad girls, small-town eccentrics. Every few years its inhabitants burn down part of the town for the insurance. Central character is Shackle Redmon, tall, 17-year-old, dirty-faced boy who worked in his father's brickyard, occasionally got into knock-down fights with the old man, fell violently in love with the village heiress. Dorothy Hopper had been called "Pete" since girlhood. At 19 she was a sophisticated young lady...